Sentences with phrase «being as prisoner of war»

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Yet Saudi Arabia is not without its critics, who lament its poor record on human rights, draconian executions of political prisoners and military intervention in the civil war in Yemen, a conflict that has caused a humanitarian disaster in the country and one which is seen as a proxy war between the kingdom and its regional rival, Iran.

The lecture was given in two halves, the first describing his personal journey following his captivity as a prisoner of war in Scotland, the second explicitly addressing the title of the talk.

A male soldier and a female prisoner of war Women could be taken as booty from a successful campaign and forced to become wives or concubines.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was asked to lead a service for his fellow prisoners in Flossenburg concentration camp towards the end of the Second World War As he finished two men flung open the door and told prisoner Bonhoeffer to take his things and come with them.

American patriotism would be more honest if we Americans were as aware of the moral shortcomings of our past dealings with African - Americans, Native Americans and the civilians of countries with whom we have been at war as Germans are of the Nazi treatment of Jews, gypsies and Russian prisoners of war.

Has enough been done for the exiles, for the unemployed and the homeless, and for the return of war prisoners that communism might not be drawn into Germany as a sponge draws in water, despite the present rejection of it in Western Germany?

Nonetheless, given the reality of large - scale war, such citizens could be held as prisoners of war under military authority.

She was captured by the Confederate army and kept as a prisoner of war.

Trump expressed no remorse for saying last summer that Sen. John McCain was «not a war hero,» despite being captured in Vietnam and tortured as a prisoner of war.

Neither water nor medicine aid was provided and you could not even donate blood for the injured in hospitals as it was stated that they were prisoners of war and hence no blood transfusions were permitted.

I obviously do not wish to belittle the significance of the deaths of people in the other groups - ethnic Poles, Slovenians, Homosexuals, left - wing political activists, disabled people, Roma, and arguably also prisoners of war from the USSR (my own grandfather was both a Jew and a soldier in the Red Army); and it's important to mention them as well.

Any combatant, as defined in Article 43, who falls into the power of an adverse Party shall be a prisoner of war.

While all combatants are obliged to comply with the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict, violations of these rules shall not deprive a combatant of his right to be a combatant or, if he falls into the power of an adverse Party, of his right to be a prisoner of war, except as provided in paragraphs 3 and 4.

«It's time to free the prisoners of the war on drugs,» declared Green Party governor candidate Howie Hawkins as he and the party's attorney general candidate and Bronx - based people's lawyer Ramon Jimenez spoke in front of Manhattan Criminal Court.

The prisoners of war who had been used as slaves to build two railway bridges deep in the jungle of Siam (now Thailand) welcomed the destruction, even though it meant they had to rebuild them again and again.

(As the extermination and cremation area, Camp III was under heavy guard and cut off from the rest of the camp; its inhabitants could not take part in the well - known prisoner revolt of October 1943, when about 300 inmates managed to escape — most were later caught and did not survive the war.)

My uncle was drafted into the army right out of school, and when I was born, he had just returned from the Soviet Union after 10 years as a prisoner of war.

It was originally used as a rehabilitation program for prisoners of war and was later found to be of great benefit to anyone seeking a higher level of fitness.

The Hỏa Lò Prison, also known as the Hanoi Hilton, where several Americans (including John McCain) were held as prisoners of war during the Vietnam War, as well as the Hanoi Opera Houwar during the Vietnam War, as well as the Hanoi Opera HouWar, as well as the Hanoi Opera House.

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He has just recently been starring in POW (Prisoners of War) and can soon be seen co-starring in Foyle's War, «They Fought in the Fields» as Raimund Weiser.

The movie, based on Laura Hillenbrand's best - selling biography, stars Jack O'Connell as Louis Zamperini, the Olympic runner - turned - airman who was captured and tortured as a prisoner of war.

Based on his best - selling memoir, The Railway Man tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War war at a Japanese labour camp during World War War II.

After announcing itself as a meditation on how the American soul has been forged by violence, the film begins in earnest when Joseph is tasked with releasing his most infamous prisoner — the cancerous Cheyenne war chief, Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi)-- and escorting the man back to the Valley of the Bears, so that he can be buried in his birthplace.

The Spy is being written and directed by Gideon Raff, who also created Prisoners Of War, the Israeli TV show that served as the basis for Homeland.

His situation gets worse though as he's taken prisoner by the Japanese Navy until the end of the war.

Harrer and his group fail the climb, turn back, and are promptly arrested as prisoners of war.

In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier (Michelle Williams) is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother - in - law (Kristin Scott Thomas) as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war.

Angelina Jolie's second film as director tells the extraordinary story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic long - distance runner who fought as a bombardier in the second world war and survived 47 days adrift after being shot down over the Pacific before being taken prisoner by the Japanese.

One day, a mysterious trunk is delivered to the facility's water tank by surly, violent security specialist Strickland (Michael Shannon), soon to be revealed as a fish - man hybrid (Doug Jones) to be studied by the military as a prisoner and test subject to hopefully uncover powerful secrets that could tip the tide of the Cold War.

Based on a true story, the film takes place in 1980 England and stars Colin Firth as Eric Lomax, a former British officer and Prisoner of War who was interred...

He spends nearly a half - hour on a stagecoach ride that introduces a mustachioed fugitive tracker, John «The Hangman» Ruth (Kurt Russell, talking like John Wayne); his driver O.B. (James Parks); his prisoner, the treacherous outlaw Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who's being escorted to Red Rock for hanging; incoming Red Rock sheriff Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a former outlaw that Ruth can't accept as a lawman, and Maj. Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), an ex-slave turned anti-Confederate war hero turned bounty hunter whose record of wartime atrocities makes Ruth distrust him and Mannix hate his guts.

The director was always funny, even with a prisoner - of - war drama like «Stalag 17,» but he'd rarely tackled a comedy so outrageous and high - concept as «Some Like It Hot.»

Hundreds more were detained as prisoners of war, and over 730 U.S. merchant ships were sunk or damaged.

Avery was captured and held as a prisoner of war for two years near Auschwitz III, a... (more)

In 1917, he and his wife were sent to a French internment camp as prisoners of war.

Most famous as the site of a federal prison, Alcatraz Island was first a military fortress, home to the first lighthouse on the Pacific Coast in the mid 1850's, and a military prison for prisoners of the Civil and Spanish American Wars.

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For a time, during the second world war, the Gili islands were used by Japanese forces as a look out post and also a prisoner of war camp.

The scored, scraped and blemished metal itself becomes a body of gashes and scars, hinting at Burri's original medical vocation as a military surgeon in the Italian army, first in the mid-1930s and later in the Second World War, where he was captured and interned as a prisoner of war in Hereford, Texas for five yeaWar, where he was captured and interned as a prisoner of war in Hereford, Texas for five yeawar in Hereford, Texas for five years.

Masha Bruskina was a nurse and leader of the Minsk (Belarus) resistance movement during World War II; a 17 - year - old Communist partisan, she posed as a gentile in order to help wounded Soviet prisoners escape from Nazi - held territories.

He converted the hangars, which had been used in World War II to hold German prisoners, into massive galleries for contemporary art and refurbished some of the other structures to serve as work, office, and storage spaces.

But many of these Africans were prisoners of war — trained warriors, soldiers, and mercenaries — who were not inclined to serve as forced laborers by their own free will once they arrived.

Fort D.A. Russell started out as Camp Marfa, headquarters for the Big Bend Military District during the Mexican Revolution, then became a cavalry fort, housed German prisoners of war during World War II, was returned to civilian use in 1949, and was later bought by Judd who eventually purchased hundreds of acres of military property and at the time of his death, owned 40,000 acres of ranch lawar during World War II, was returned to civilian use in 1949, and was later bought by Judd who eventually purchased hundreds of acres of military property and at the time of his death, owned 40,000 acres of ranch laWar II, was returned to civilian use in 1949, and was later bought by Judd who eventually purchased hundreds of acres of military property and at the time of his death, owned 40,000 acres of ranch land.

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After being a prisoner of war and losing a leg as a soldier with the Foreign Legion (between 1939 and 1945), Hartung returned to Paris, where he became particularly interested in spontaneity, irrationality, and freedom of form.

Green architecture can change functions: In the last three centuries, the Citadel has been used as a fortress and to hold prisoners of war, from the days of Louis XIV and Napoleon to World War war, from the days of Louis XIV and Napoleon to World War War II.

Elaborating on the 1842 suggestion of the French mathematician Joseph A. Adhémar, Milutin Milankovitch proposed during World War I that the sunlight reaching the higher latitudes controlled the ice ages (he did his laborious calculations as a prisoner of war), and that slow changes in the earth's orbit were importaWar I that the sunlight reaching the higher latitudes controlled the ice ages (he did his laborious calculations as a prisoner of war), and that slow changes in the earth's orbit were importawar), and that slow changes in the earth's orbit were important.

Justice O'Connor cited it in the plurality opinion in Hamdi et al. v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507, 519 (2004), for the proposition that that «captured rebels» would be treated «as prisoners of war».